Okay so we are starting this week's update a little late but I will update this weekend. First if you haven't seen my brother's fan film I suggest you check it out, it came out great. He told me he is making a second video since you guys liked it so much. We also thought that you guys would enjoy a different point of view of the events in the game rather than just follow the game exactly so the movies will follow two new trainers.

The Game Corner is out, you can play up to 500 times every day. You get 100 coins to start, if you ever go down to 0 then you will get 100 coins again, compliments of Giovanni himself. Different Machines have different rates of winning and different rates on their prizes. Some machines win more often, some win less often. Some have higher chances to win better prizes. You can win 8, 15, 100 or 300 coins. Play every day and save up for the new pokemon. Some of you, before the Game Corner came out, in the blog comments mentioned that you would like to buy the shiny versions of the pokemon with the casino coins, I thought it was a great idea but obviously the price for them has to be extreme since shiny pokemon are meant to be something that takes some time to get.

I get a lot of request by email or in the comments about converting Pokedollars to SnD Coins or Casino Coins. Before I can properly answer this question I have to address Pokedollars, right now getting a huge amount of Pokedollars is very easy to do, so providing a way to convert them to SnD Coins or Casino Coins essentially means that you could have an unlimited supply of SnD Coins and Casino Coins. I have decided that I'll be adding Casino coins to the Daily Codes. Instead of getting normal pokemon with breeding moves often you will get Casino coins often and the pokemon will be uncommon. The more you pay for the code the more Casino coins you can get. This will be implemented by this weekend.

Okay so let's talk about this weekend's update. These are the main things I want to get done.

These are for v4.1 which will be out this weekend.

Distribution (0%) - Creating all the different version, sending out the different versions to all it's locations.

I want to increase the level cap up to 50 but I don't know if I will make it so I will do it one level at the time. When that level is done I will post the next one.

Level Cap Increase to 45 (100%) - New Moves (4)

Horn Drill (100%) - Nidoran Male

Fissure (100%) - Diglett

Punishment (100%) - Mankey

Lock-On (100%) - Porygon

Level Cap Increase to 46 (100%) - New Moves (2)

Quiver Dance (100%) - Butterfree

Curse (100%) - Onix

Level Cap Increase to 47 (100%) - New Moves (5)

Hyper Beam (100%) - Gyarados

Leaf Storm (100%) - Victreebel

Wring Out (100%) - Bellsprout

Grudge (Skipped) - Vulpix - There is no PP in the game so this move will be skipped. In the future I might come back and add it.

Guillotine (100%) - Pinsir

The other big thing I want to do is add potions to the game, the first implementation gives you the regular potion for free as a default, eventually you will be able to buy upgrades for the potions. Once you upgrade you will get the updated potion for now on. With potions you will be limited to using 6 potions per level. Once you use 6 you won't be able to use it anymore until you start a new level. 6 should be enough to provide you a chance to beat the more difficult levels. They will work like the pokeball, you can drag it to your tower or drag it to the button at the bottom of the screen. I will also be adding the life bar to the button for each pokemon, so it will help you keep track of the tower's health.

Scyther doing Fissure (He can't learn it, I'm only testing). Notice the life bar in the button, and the potion above the pokeball.

Adding life bars to the tower buttons (100%)

Adding the regular potions to the game (100%)- Drag this to the towers to heal that pokemon for 20 health. Does not work on enemy pokemon.

Like I mentioned before I want to add Casino Coins to the Daily Codes and tweak some of the numbers on that.

Add Casino Coins to Daily Codes (100%) - Casino Coins will become the easiest prize to get on Daily Coins. This is available now!

Tweak the Daily Code prizes percentage to fit in the Casino Coins (100%)

The last thing I will work on is the big bugs that are hitting the game right now. The button pictures of the new pokemon are not showing correctly. (Examples: Eevee evolutions show gyarados, porygon, pinsir, scyther showing up as moltres, and new shinies showing up as Bulbasaur). Another bug is the life bars of your towers, making them behave correctly when you take damage. Also there is a bug when you remove your pokemon before it dies, so I will try to squash that also. Another small bug is pokemon in the Celadon Gym Level are running away after using their powder attacks (poison powder, sleep powder).

Sam, I just wanted to point out one more glitch. I don't know if you have already planned to deal with this or not. This may just probably be a mere reminder.

On your previous blog post, a guy called Nicholas Smith posted a comment about how he save and then it mentioned that he had apparently saved somewhere else and then kicked him out and upon logging back in, had lost a huge amount of Pokemon.Sam, do you remember something exactly like that happened to me some time ago when I lost exactly 100 Pokemon?

It seems it wasn't just something that happened to only me but seems to be a very rare glitch that can happen to others too. I spoke to someone else a couple of weeks ago on a trade chat and it once also happened to him but he only lost 10.

Though this is a rare glitch, it's one of those that can absolutely wreck one's progressI know you are the sort of guy that would be willing to compensate but I do think you need to look into that issue a bit deeply to figure out what is causing it.

hey sam, what happens if we used all our coins in the game corner? do we get 100 coins a day or are we able to buy some of them, when we are out of coins...i would add a button that gives us 100 new coins every day...

Hey thanks for the update. For the game corner, I think there should be a higher maximum of coins you can get in the slot machine. Instead of 300 being the highest I think it should be higher since getting all the shiny pokemon will take forever.

Enemy in Celadon gym turning around after using Sleep Power or Poison Powder

yeah

Sam Otero i really want to help you in something please! please i want to help you for this game. i Love PTD and i know a method with players can gain a lot of money without do anithing...please give me your skype~msn contact.

hey sam i was thinking along with showing the health bars on the tower buttons, it'd be a nice feature if the buttons also showed the arrows that come up when you use buffs like focus energy, rage, etc so we know when they wear off and we can re-apply the buff.

Hey Sam, this sounds like an excellent update and I'm excited to see how it all comes through. This game has progressed so much since I began playing it on the first week in April and I just want to say congrats and making such a quality game.

Anyways the Casino coins idea sounds great, esp since the daily codes began I've been paying 100,000 a day and I have like 3 catepies and ekans each, which I mean is fair but some more variance in prizes would be good. My only suggestion would be to keep the legendary and shiny rate the same, but instead of making the Casino coins the vast majority of the rest, possibly make the odds of getting them like 50% with varying random amounts of coins available and breeding moves the other 47 or so percent. This way should keep the very expensive prizes seeming closer, but not yet that close that they should be getting significantly easier to buy.

You might just be doing this that way anyways, so if so I just want to say great job so far and just keep up the awesome work. I look forward to all your updates.

hey sam i have an idea to get SnD coins in another games you can buy coins by a text message i dont know if you can do this that would help me a lot and if you do that .i´m in mexico so i dont know if you do it it works here well thats all i have a dragonair !!!!!!!!!!!!

So how many casino coins are you talking about winning in the daily code?

And i am unsure what you mean about the pokemon in the daily code. Are you getting rid of the common ones?? ( It would be cool if you did, im sure people would agree with me that it gets annoying winning a stupid common pokemon with a breeding move. and always getting rid of them)

Hey Saaaam, my eevee are showing up as gyara-lol just kiddin' :P.Congratulations for PTD Sam.I'm lookin' forward for this update,also I loved the game corner, as I was waiting for Scyther since I started playing in MAy I tihink...all I know is that it was v.2.something...Anyways, keep up the good work.Gratz 'n' greetings from Brazil(just for you to see how ur game is popular:we've got a guy from Poland and another from Brazil here :D)PS:Hooray 41st

Great work so far. I'm a big fan of tower defense, and when I first started, I thought this would be awful, but, it's actually pretty great! :D

Couple things I'd like to (someday) see.1: Actual Stats of Pokemon you have. I wanna see it say, for example, 100 Attack 50 SpA, 20 Def, whatever. I don't need it to be super accurate. But, just a general idea of attack vs special attack. It'd be nice to have.2: I'd like to see an option in the trade center to specifically search for Pokemon that haven't been "hacked". Of course, that may just be me.

Anyway, it'd be cool to see more Pokemon, and more variability in the ones that can be caught. But, I can tell you're putting a lot of hard work into this, and I really wanna say thanks, and that I'm noticing, and I'm sure everyone else is, too.

@sam: I hope who potion won't be a obbligatory things for complete a level. I hate the idea.Much better fight normal enemies with a good strategy than fight a overpowered enemies who force you to heal/use potion your pokemon.

Hi Sam,do you think you will be making a second Pokemon TD?(Jhoto)Because when Joey was all talking about it i got excited but i see we will stop mewthree before we go there.Thanks for this AWESOME game. beana 9000

Yush, potions are back! They would have made Lavender Town so much easier!

I like the idea of different slot machines. At first, I thought it was pointless until I tried them all out and noticed the different prize rates. Then I fell in love (not really :]) with slot machine # 4. Didn't know about the complimentary coins if you hit zero. Isn't Giovanni a swell guy?

Cannot wait for the level boost. Now I just need to work on getting more casino coins.

hi sam just wondering when berries and stuff are coming and pokeballs i mean this game is almost finished rite but can't wait for safari zone and just wondering if in the future theres gonna be add ons to the game?

Sam, love the game. The only change i would suggest is a minor one. Could our pokedex retain data from pokemon we no longer have? I dont like that I have to be in possession of a pokemon to have it in my dex (except for evolutions which already retain their pre-evolved data). Just a thought, since this is how the old games worked, even if i trade something away my pokedex should say that i caught it maybe?

Hey Sam, sorry if you said this already but is the game corner every 20 hrs like how you made the daily prizes, and if your doing coins for the prizes, i like that better for the higher chances then just getting a spearow or abra because then we can pick the pokemon we need.

when you say " We are about half way done with the story mode, 4 more gym battles, the elite 4, and then the final battle against Mewthree!" does that mean it will be the end of ptd or will you make another region with different places,pokemon,etc.i would hate to see the end of this game. i found out about it when it was version 2.6,and i was hooked. please think about this. but it would be cool to make another region!!!

A suggestion for you is to introduce gym badge levels like in the game where if you don't have a specific badge, your pokemon above X level won't 100% obey your command.

This will help keep the game balanced so that people don't just get traded a super powerful pokemon from someone else and blast through a new game.

So, if you have a pokemon that is 1 badge above your badge level cap, then maybe commands are only 75% effective. 2 badge levels then 50% and 3 badge levels then 25% and 4 badge levels then 0%. It will help keep the earlier levels challenging for people starting new games and not let them "cheat" (with stronger pokemon).

I suggest to set the gym badge level caps to the level caps you had up until now as you were programming (ex. gym badge 3 only lets pokemon up to level 44 obey, then now the gym badge 4 will let pokemon up to your next level cap obey 100%).

I don't know if it's too early but does anyone have a shiny dratini or dragonair willing to trade forshiny-abra-sandslash-blastoise-gyarados-wigglytuff-parasect-primeape-persian-poliwrath-farfetch'd-starmieI'm willing to trade any six of those for one.-Guitarman13579

Sam, I seem to have found a bug, not sure if anyone found this or not.

Preface: When the Game corner came out, I looked at the prize list, and decided to use some SnD coins to adopt the shiny versions of the new Pokémon, while trying to use the slots to earn enough casino coins to get the regular ones. All four of them are currently level 1

bug: On APK version 4.0, I cannot start ANY level if I have any of the new shiny Pokémon in my party. I've tried every level, and if any of the four are in my group, the start button just simply does not work. If I remove the offending Pokémon, I can start the level normally.

So are you planning on adding Celebi to the legendary adoptable pokemon if not you should I don't think anyone would mind. You should add all the legendary pokemon you introduce in the game even if they are not in Gen 1 just like you did with the dogs.

Also it would be great if when you buy or adopt a pokemon you could see a preview of how the avatar looks this would be useful to see how certain pokemon look in their shiny form. Yeah I know you can just google to see how the shiny version looks like but still it would be nice feature to have and if it's too much work then just forget about it.

Sam, Please make legendaries obtainable if you put them in the game im sure people would like it if they could have the legendary birds or kyogre or celebi because in the game whenever you see a legendary you can catch itplease consider it

I noticed that ekans, oddish and vulpix are in red, and sandshrew, bellsprout and growlithe in blue but why are mankey and meowth in the same versions? I thought mankey was for blue and meowth for red.

Just a thought...If you introduce different types of pokeballs, such as great ball and ultra ball, you could make it so that if you buy some you can catch pokemon with more health left than just a regular pokeball. This would hold true to the original game and make catching rare pokemon easier (aside from shinies, obviously).

@ano 12:47 if you see the list of pokémon in trading section,you can see Mew,Kyogre,Entei ecc, so is sure which we will caught it. but if we can caught a legendary when we meets it, is very easy caught it,so ALL people will have ALL legendary,stupid thing.

Pikachus Charge is a bit useless, isn't it?it boosts just one attack. So I can just let it attack twice, instead of charge+attack. and the result is the same. :/also. the buff symbol should disappear, when the damage boost is used.

hey guys, sam thanx for the game man bloomin brilliant. i do really enjoy it, it brings back some chilhood memories. anyhu could someone help me out and tell me which or what type of pokemon has flash attack because i need a pokemon for "Rock Tunnel" otherwise i can't further myself in the story i already done the challenge modes for red, ive stated a game in blue (just to fill in the gaps in my pokedex) lol. but aye any help will be apprechiated.Thank you. Tarzan.

Will you make something so that fainted Pokemon don't get removed from the party, cuz it gets a little annoying sometimes, having to search for them again in the storage and drag them back into the party.

I was thinking just put a big Red X across the fainted Pokemon's square and make the square itself Grey like to unused Pokemon or something. Then it will be back to normal when you go back to storage of course.

Sam, I agree with Tommy. It would be a great addition to the game to increase attack radius when a pokemon evolves. It should be a stat just like attack defense, and speed.

It would also be a great way to give purpose to moves that don't have much use when converted to tower defense (like how you made moves like sand attack cause pokemon to drop candy instead of drop it's accuracy).

Hi Sam great update. I read a commen about converting Pokedollars in SnD coins and I thought... Instead of converting pokedollars in SnD coins what about converting Pokemon in SnD coins or Game Corner coins (but not for they real value... lets say 1/2 or sth like that). I propose this becuase by being able to addopt pokemons, the trade value of the uncommon shiny pokemon (drowzee, pikachu, etc) is really low now.

Sam and Dan, i would recommend checking the latest HTD Tuesday for new comments, as some people seem to use that, rather than just the latest blog post, for HTD related stuff (And then there is me that finished writing my comment and saw that there was a new blog post in the mean time :/)

I just wanna go on record as saying that while the game itself (game mechanics, animations, Pokemon, etc.) are fantastic (albeit a bit buggy sometimes) I've found the storyline to be... lacking. I think my biggest complaint is that you call Red "Ash" and Green "Gary". I understand that the Anime is more popular with youngsters, but for a more "Original Pokemon" looking game, you might consider checking out the Pokemon Adventures Special canon. That's what the games were based on originally.

Sam, I think Mt. Moon Challenge level is too easy now. I can beat it without leveling up any Pokémon, and with all the candy left. Can you make it more challenging, like before? The Golems with Magnitude kill everything.

And finally I got my Dratini, looking for Scyther and Porygon, I offer a raichu Shiny in my account: iamthebest

- add a minimap (a map that shows in a simple way all the "battlefield"), with it would be possible to see where the enemy is coming from and to travel throught the battlefield without a lot of click and drag or moving your pokemon.

- the pokemon that you choose before you start a level remain selected in the next Pokemon select screen (before starting a level) even if they die;

- a way to use two different moves without clicking on the pokemon. Something like : helping~Flametower hand, this way the pokemon will use helping hand than flametower until its possible to use helping hand again.

Why do people keep offering rare shinies and requesting Pokemon if they're not gonna accept them anyway? Gaaah...at this rate, I'll never find a shiny drowzee, shiny eevees and shiny mew. @-@ And I'm not even offering to them the shiny pidgeys. Just shiny versions of squirtle, raichu, venusaur, meowth, jynx, diglett or gyarados.

great stuff but try now to focus on level caps and challenge levels and story mode this is all like bonus and i enjoy it i can't turn off my computer till i go 500 times on the slots but i other than that nothing else i think you should focus mainly now on level caps cuz of the celadon gym it was freaking hard barely beated it and yes add more achivments in the pokedex your sincerely POKE FREAK

Thing is I already have a shiny nidoking and nidoqueen. ^^; I'm mostly looking for the shiny drowzee, eons or mew (and the game corner shinies, but those I'm gonna try to get on my own), since those are the only shinies I'm missing for now. But was there something that I mentioned that got your attention?

@ Ovamiat - I think I can spare you a shiny Vulpix I have up for trade! You said you needed one, right? Give me something of your choice and I'll give you my unnecessarily obtained shiny Vulpix! It's currently up for trade, what do you say?!

lol Dratini is a Moltres and Pinsir is a Jynx that's kinda cool sorta reminds me of the mew glitch in Pokemon blue/red

@ Sam remember how i mentioned about going to the orange islands last post, you said you couldn't introduce new Pokemon, i just remembered in the the episodes ash meats some of the Johto Pokemon while there and you can add the special Pokemon like the pink ones off Pinkan Island. that's just a idea and don't forget sandbox mode :) from one of your many fans. Jav

some people forget what it was like when you first start the game. when mt moon wasn't a cake-walk and when that 'stupid common pokemon with a breeding move' was that pain of an abra to catch that did the trick for the next 5 levels. don't worry about re-vamping the old levels, they're great! this whole game is amazing! i look forward to seeing it completed.

hey samjust wanted to knowwhen does multiplayer comeafter we defeat mewthree or beforejust curiousand keep p with the good workreally looking forward to the next four gyms and the elite fourit would be nice if there was a gym leader who wasnt controlled by mewthree but only wanted to test our strenghtregardsarif

I wonder if it is a bug or not but when an ennemy pokemon gets hit by 2 Fire Blasts at the same time, only 1 Fire Blast inflicts damages, the other one just do nothing.I hope you can understand me, my english isn't very good

AH mmmh and also i'm the "Fire Blast guy".Another minor something-i-don't-know-if-it-can-be-called-a-bug, when you moves a tower, it loses its buff (like helping hand), but it also loses its debuff (for example if you received poison powder). So you just have to "move your tower from a point to the same point" which is taking about 0.05sec, to get rid of poison effect... that's rather strange :/ remember in pokemon games... Poison is staying in pokeballs xD. However i want to THANK you sam for this great game.Keep on working on it you do it well ;)

Why do people keep calling Raikou, Entei and Suicune dogs? They're not even dogs, or cats. They're actually called "beasts", which is why when the shiny ones were offered in Gamestop, they were called "Legendary Beast Trio".

Hey Sam!I just had a suggestion that isn't really in reference to the update, or to anything.Can you not add story levels when you increase level cap?By that I mean nontraining levels. At this point it's very hard to beat the story levels without all your pokemon at cap and it would be a little annoying to not be able to do a new level because you need to grind out an old one. Thanks!

sam why cant i use the game corner anymore? its telling meOnly Team Rocket Members allowed! Pass Giovanni's Test in Chapter 4's Lavender Town to join Team Rocket! Press back on your browser to continue

for the issue about effectively infinite SnD Coins and/or Casino Coins you could simply make a limit on how much PokeDollars can be spent each day. Like you could make an SnD coin cost Half a Million PokeDollars, but they can only buy 1 SnD coin a day, then it resets at the same time all the other stuff at the Pokemon Center resets. just an ideaJaveron

Hey, sam. I was thinking and I thought of a way to get SnD coins without people getting a large amount with easy access. How about if some pokemon are carrying the coins and they could be carrying any amount of SnD coins?

(Add-on to my comment about pokemon carrying SnD coins)This will not only increase the rate of pokemon caught and sent into trade getting more people involved in the trade it might also increase the amount of people to install the Ninja-ja game because if someone is close to getting amount of coins the will install to get the remaining amount.

What do you mean only members of Team Rocket can play in the Game Corner? Not that we have to have that avatar, but rather that we have to beat the 4th Gym level and be a part of Team Rocket as far as the story line goes.

Also, hadn't you told another gamer that you would add Tangela to the Game Corner in the next update?

Good work so far! I feel like you've gotten most of the bugs out and are now starting to get back to continuing the story line and adding more pokemon. Exciting!

What is your account name on the pokemon centre because when i type in Ovamiat it shows the name but nothing comes up. Just wanted to know because i said i would trade you Abra, Pikachu, Vulpix and diglett

@ Ovamiat - I would give you shiny Pikachu and Diglett, but they already evolved. I can still give you the shiny Vulpix, but the problem is--and Max said he's having the same problem--when I type in Ovamiat in the trading center no pokemon show up with your name next to them! Did ya change your account name?!

@ Sam - You've done a lot for version 4.1! Now just one honest question: do you know the release day for the new version?!

Sam i have a idea why you dont implamate a acm to get the 3 legendary dogs shiny like when you have 50shinys in your pokedex you become a shiny raikou when you have 100 shinys you become shiny entei and when you have 150 shinys in the pokedex you become shiny suicune the acm price can get every one only one time the shiny starters have you put in the game too without one must support you so i think you can do this with the legendary dogs too as shiny

@anon 6:37 PMif you use a pokemon in the hacked version regardless of where you get it, it will be branded as hacked. the best way to avoid pokemon being classed as hacked play hear on the blog it is always the first one to get updated.

@ Raptor - I have a regular Pinsir! I'll trade with you, but only if you have a worthy tradable pokemon! My Pinsir is available to the HIGHEST BIDDER ONLY!!! Only he/she who possesses a shiny game corner pokemon, shiny Mew, or a Dog can wield my fully-leveled Pinsir!!! Waddaya have?!

You forgot to edit the percentage on the prize list for common code for breeding move pokemon (but you did do the other two :) Also it seems kinda pointless to have casino coins as prizes in the first two categories when most players buy those prizes because they arent very far in the game, let alone able to use the casino.

Also how many levels do you think you will increase the level cap to this week? 46 is fine by me with 4.1 being released tonight ;)

@anon 123it wont be out for iphone/ipad ever unless sam makes the app and uses this p12 file and other stuff required to publish the app file(i told him the website already) in the adobe flash cs55 or whatever and then releases it to allow jailbroken ipods only to be able to use the game on iphone/ipad, but that will probably never happen unless sam can hire an iphone app developer to recode everything and release but then, it would only be available to people who jailbroke their iphone/ipad

@ sam I love ptd and i cant wait for the update but i have a suggestion, can you put old ptd avatars back up for the mystery gift? New ptd players might want them but wont get a chance to have them. Please think it over and keep up the good work :)

Anonymous said...hey what about Maruto? Where is he? are you going to put a level where you have to rescue him or he just disappeared? OH and are you going to make a game for the NEXT GENERATION (johto)?!

I answer at your question. I don't think. There are already the three dogs,and them are of jhoto region. if he do another game,after this,in another regio,i hope in Hoenn Region.

are you going to add numbers to the health bar like in the real games. For example a full health pokemon might have 90/90 but after it gets hits it's goes down to 70/90. If you added this we would know which potions we need. FOr example there is no reason to getting a heal 50 hp potion if all of your pokemon only have 30 hp.

@sam does the daily code reset at the same time as they used to do earlier? I bought one at 1PM and it usually used to reset at 2 PM but I cant buy it.@ovimat I can trade a shiny vulpix.(if you give me a nice offer)@everyone Trainer name --ronak.